The Discovery Of Genesis

truth, that the flood involving these eight people was
total, or universal, and not a localized catastrophe.
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eight united earth total water
An early pictograph of flood is exactly comparable:
Note also
the water
“covering”
hands joined
water
earth
the earth. eight
Another explicitly shows the four hands of the males
united and “riding” above the waters: g “And the
waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the
high mountains under the whole heaven were covered”
(Genesis 7:19). This verse could be interpreted only
as a universal, total deluge.
Still another character depicting the eight A people
0 is ig meaning variously to hand down, to continue,
to follow a course. Note several interesting methods of
writing the old forms: (14 , :;lJ , or & In this last
figure, the eight persons )o( are seen floating on the water
% It was, of course, from these eight persons that all
tradition, history, and knowledge have continued from
the first world into the second, being “handed down.”
“The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon
the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred
and fifty days” (Genesis 7:18, 24). At the end of this
150-day period the ark came to rest on the mountains
of Ararat (Genesis 8 :4), but it would be many months
before the earth had dried sufficiently to permit their
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